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M ODERN L ANGUAGE A SSOCIATION FORMATTING

M ODERN L ANGUAGE A SSOCIATION FORMATTING. Academic Writing Style for Research and Analysis. Semantics . Essay versus Story These are essays, short pieces of writing that express a particular point of view. Stories are fictional or non-fictional narratives.

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M ODERN L ANGUAGE A SSOCIATION FORMATTING

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  1. MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION FORMATTING Academic Writing Style for Research and Analysis

  2. Semantics • Essay versus Story • These are essays, short pieces of writing that express a particular point of view. • Stories are fictional or non-fictional narratives. • You are writing ESSAYS about STORIES with this assignment.

  3. The Format • FONT • SPACING • HEADER • HEADING • TITLE • PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS (SHORT CITATIONS) • WORKS CITED PAGE (LONG CITATIONS)

  4. The Reasoning • To give credit to authors and producers for their work. • To provide a format that quickly presents readers with source material. • To create a format that keeps up with current source material types: text, audiovisual, digital.

  5. Common Errors in Formatting • Understand that these errors should NOT be common. • Follow the directions, and they will be RARE. • MOST (not all) can be attributed to CARELESSNESS or FAILURE TO REVIEW THE VERY EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS.

  6. Common Errors in Formatting • The Font • MUST be Times New Roman 12 • NO bold, NO underlining, NO sizes anywhere other than 12 • Italics are used with titles of long works.

  7. Common Errors in Formatting • Spacing • Double-spaced • One-inch margins • ½ inch margin from top of page to header • NO other spacing (single, triple, quadruple) is allowed ANYWHERE in the paper

  8. Common Errors in Formatting • The Header • Right-justified • Last name and page number • You CANNOT type in the number. Use Word to do this. • The default font is NOT Times New Roman 12. • Word WILL set the top margin correctly.

  9. Common Errors in Formatting • The Heading • Do not confuse this with the heading. • The heading was provided for you in the MLA template on the SharePoint.

  10. Common Errors in Formatting • Essay Titles in MLA Papers • Are required • Should reflect the CONTENT of the paper • YOUR title is different from someone ELSE’S title in the way you punctuate it. • You don’t need to underline, boldface, or italicize your own title. DO NOT make the font bigger. • If someone ELSE uses the title of your essay, he or she has to put it in quotation marks. • It’s the first part of the paper. Make it informative.

  11. Avoiding Plagiarism • Quoted material is limited to 10-15% of your paper.

  12. Avoiding Plagiarism: Quoting

  13. Avoiding Plagiarism: Quoting

  14. Avoiding Plagiarism: Parenthetical Citations • Short citations are to GIVE CREDIT to writers and producers. • Use with quotations AND paraphrasing:

  15. Avoiding Plagiarism: the Works Cited Page • It’s called “Works Cited”, no quotation marks, because it has the WORKS you CITED (or were supposed to anyway) in your paper.

  16. YOUR TURN… • WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU REMEMBER ABOUT MLA FORMATTING. START WITH HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM.

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